"And what do you think of this?" the man continued, and drew from his pocket a beautiful string of pearl beads set in gold.
"My beads! My lost beads!" screamed Nan. "Oh, how glad I am that you found them!"
She took the beads and looked at them carefully. They were a bit dirty, but otherwise as good as ever.
"I thought I should never see these again," said Nan. "I must tell mamma of this!" And she started for the house with flying feet. Mrs. Bobbsey was glad indeed to learn that the strings of pearls had been found, and everybody declared that Nan was certainly lucky.
"I am going to fasten them on good and tight after this," said Nan, and she did.
Down by the well the man was not yet through handing over the things he had found.
"And there's a wedding ring!" he said next, while he turned out in his hand a thin gold band.
"Oh, Mrs. Burns lost that!" chorused a number of the boys. "She felt dreadful over it too. She'll be tickled to get that back all right."
"Well, here," said the man, turning to Harry. "I guess you're the biggest boy; I'll let you take that back to Mrs. Burns with my best wishes," and he handed Harry the long-lost wedding ring.
It was only a short distance to Mrs. Burns' house, and Harry lost no time in getting there.